Eureka Reporter | 1905-09-08 | Page 3 | Wires, Beasts and Birds

W res beasts and birds A strange thing is the effect of electrical energy on birds and wild beasts says a telegraph lineman woodpeckers are continually tapping telegraph poles in the country you will find everywhere poles honey combed by the sturdy bills of wood peckers the birds mistake the hum mag sound inside the poles or the humming of insects and it Is to get at these supposed insects that they make the r perforations bears on the other hand think the humming comes from bees and they overturn the stones at the pole s base in their endeavor to get at ehfe honey wolves are afraid of the sound A wolf won t go near a telegraph pole under any rt philadelphia union